In the 2024 NFL Playoff Wild Card round, the Kansas City Chiefs played at Arrowhead Stadium in the fifth-coldest playoff game in NFL history. Temperatures weren’t just cold—they were dangerously cold, to the point where fans with uncovered skin at the game could expect frostbite within half an hour.
And yet, Chiefs fans showed up. They showed up and they were loud. Attendance was at nearly 71,500, a frankly absurd number of people. But if you’ve been following the Chiefs of recent years, you know that such attendance can be expected no matter the weather, with Super Bowl parades of half a million people and the supremacy of the NFL in the sports landscape.